Politics

By Priscilla Alvarez, Tierney Sneed, Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security is planning a surge in its efforts to investigate voter fraud in select states starting Tuesday, according to internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN.Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has accelerated efforts to make the department a central force in President

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A likely Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang on Monday leaked what appear to be sensitive law enforcement files it stole from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.The dumped files appear to include information on targets of past ATF investigations and analyses of their phone communications, according to

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors issued a grand jury subpoena requiring Daniel Richman, a longtime friend and adviser to former FBI director James Comey, to testify in a renewed probe into whether Comey improperly shared sensitive information with the media, according to a source familiar with the investigation.The subpoena indicates

By Marshall Cohen, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — The prediction market Kalshi on Monday fined the Republican nominee in a competitive House race and imposed its first-ever lifetime ban, against former Rep. George Santos, after insider trading investigations.The North Carolina candidate, Laurie Buckhout, admitted in a statement to CNN that she bet on her own

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Arlington, Massachusetts (CNN) — The Boston Tea Party wasn’t really about the tea, and it certainly wasn’t about the Mohawks though those were the costumes the colonists wore as they dumped the boxes overboard.In Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in deep blue Massachusetts, longtime Sen. Ed Markey is harking back to those

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Republican campaign groups – supported by the Trump administration – asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let them purchase television advertising at discounted rates, handing the nation’s highest court another emergency appeal that could influence the outcome of this year’s midterm elections.The quick-turn appeal follows a series of

By Aaron Blake, CNN Washington (CNN) — I still remember my first job interview to cover politics in Washington back in 2006.The job was writing about House and Senate campaigns, and I think I spent more time talking about which midterm races I was interested in than why I was the right candidate for the

By Katherine Dautrich, CNN (CNN) — Brad Lander, a Democratic congressional nominee in New York City, faced heckling Saturday over his stance on Israel as he protested a Hindu nationalist politician speaking at Madison Square Garden.Lander, a critic of the Israeli government who identifies as a liberal Zionist, was welcomed by some protesting Rashtriya Swayamsevak

By Logan Schiciano, Julia Benbrook, CNN (CNN) — Anyone in the United States searching for Lake Ontario on Google Maps can no longer find it as of this weekend.Users in the country will now see the smallest of the Great Lakes identified as “Lake America” on that site, following President Donald Trump’s executive order on

By Brian Stelter, Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, President Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like.In a separate post, Trump complained in all caps

By Manu Raju, Patrick Svitek, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Senate GOP leaders gave President Donald Trump a clear warning before the Texas primary election in May as he weighed endorsing Ken Paxton over longtime incumbent John Cornyn: If the state attorney general won, Trump’s political operation would have to bankroll the expensive general election

By Aleena Fayaz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A plan being considered by the Trump administration to allow a developer to use a portion of Yosemite National Park land is facing strong opposition from elected officials and conservationists, reflecting broader concerns about privatizing some of the country’s most cherished landmarks.The National Park Service is considering

By Eric Bradner, CNN Lansing, Michigan (CNN) — Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, is scrambling this weekend to try to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats — meeting individually and with groups of Jewish party leaders and apologizing for controversial past remarks as he tries to unite a fractured party before November.But he downplayed

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — At this point more than two months before the midterm elections, Democrats retaking control of Congress and its subpoena power is far from certain. But President Donald Trump is already laying down legal markers for how he’ll fight any attempt by lawmakers to investigate him.In a Justice Department memo

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Independence, Iowa (CNN) — Of all the cities to visit in Iowa, Rob Sand did not stop here in Independence because it’s a fitting metaphor in his campaign for governor.Yet, he surely needs voters to believe that it is.“I think our political system is broken,” Sand told a crowd seated closely

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration settled an insider-trading case Friday against President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator, fining him $65,000 for “unlawful” prediction-market trades about Trump’s speeches.The White House aide, Gabriel Perez, will also give up $107,000 in ill-gotten profits from his trades on Kalshi, according to the Commodity Futures Trading

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will have “adverse” effects on dozens of historical landmarks, the National Park Service found.Nonetheless, the agency concluded in a report released Friday that the arch must stay at the proposed site on the banks of the Potomac River as the project is

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday night the United States has reached an oil agreement with Venezuela, a move he said will “more than double” American oil reserves, increase oil supply and lower gas prices.“At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military, the latest significant case involving trans Americans to reach the conservative court in recent years.Days after taking office last year, Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge again denied President Donald Trump’s legal effort to get his New York state criminal hush money case moved to federal court, a move that could have made it easier to reverse his conviction.District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a ruling Friday that Trump’s

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week, saying he’s asked his attorney general to look into their “aggressive” behavior.The Justice Department sent two Civil Rights Division attorneys to Laramie County, Wyoming, which includes

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make it easier for ranchers to process their own meat, in an effort to weaken the control the nation’s four largest meatpacking firms have over the process.The move comes shortly after Trump was pressed on the issue by conservative radio host

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, will forgo a visit to ground zero for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks to instead mark the occasion with remarks at the Pentagon, two people briefed on the plans tell CNN.Trump is not attending the ceremony that will

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out a plan, issued under an executive order from President Trump, that could limit mail voting.Democratic states and voter advocacy groups challenging the recently released USPS rules were granted a temporary restraining order

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed.Trump’s executive order marks the president’s latest attempt to use rebranding as an assertion of power —